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Albany and Lear
Lear announces he will live alternately with Goneril and Regan, and their husbands, the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall respectively.
Albany has developed a conscience-he is disgusted by the sisters ' treatment of Lear, and the mutilation of Gloucester, and denounces Goneril.
Albany insists that they fight the French invaders but not harm Lear or Cordelia.
He considers the dilemma and plots the deaths of Albany, Lear, and Cordelia.
" There are two strongly contrasting views of Nature in the play: that of the Lear party ( Lear, Gloucester, Albany, Kent ), exemplifying the philosophy of Bacon and Hooker, and that of the Edmund party ( Edmund, Cornwall, Goneril, Regan ), akin to the views later formulated by Hobbes.
Another of her notable roles was as Goneril in an Emmy-winning television production of Shakespeare's King Lear, opposite Laurence Olivier as King Lear and Robert Lang as the Duke of Albany.
* William Shakespeare's King Lear includes as a major character the Duke of Albany, who is husband to Lear's daughter, Goneril.

Albany and resume
Albany rewarded Douglas for his support by allowing him to resume hostilities in England.
Albany, seemingly in no hurry to return to the fractious northern kingdom, suggested that she resume the regency herself.

Albany and throne
* David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland, dies while being held captive by his uncle, Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany.
* January 5 – Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, heir-presumptive to the British throne ( b. 1763 )
He also backed an attempt by Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, brother of King James III of Scotland, to take the Scottish throne in 1482.
Charles also gave Charlotte the title " Duchess of Albany " in the peerage of Scotland and the style " Her Royal Highness ", but these honours did not give Charlotte any right of succession to the throne.
Prince James, now heir to the throne, was the only impediment to the transfer of the royal line to the Albany Stewarts.
Before long a pro-French party took shape among the nobility, urging that she should be replaced by John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, the closest male relative to the infant prince, and now third in line to the throne.
Dacre hinted that Albany — cast in the role of Richard III — was responsible, though Margaret, even in her vulnerable state, refused to accept this, saying that if he really aimed at securing the throne for himself the death of James would have suited his purpose better.
Rothesay's death probably lay with Albany and Douglas who would have looked upon the possibility of the young prince acceding to the throne with great apprehension — they certainly fell under suspicion but were cleared of all blame by a general council, ' where, by divine providence and not otherwise, it is discerned that he departed from this life.
Robert III, already weakened by council when he ascended the throne was in the end completely subordinated to the magnatial power of Albany and Douglas.
Upon Charles's ascent to the throne in 1625, the title of Duke of Albany merged once again in the crowns.
Michel Roger Lafosse ( b. 21 April 1958, Watermael-Boitsfort, Brussels, Belgium ), subsequently known as Michael James Alexander Stewart of Albany, claims to be a descendant of Charles Edward Stuart (" Bonnie Prince Charlie ") and the legitimate Jacobite claimant to the throne of the former Kingdom of Scotland.
Charles Edward on a 5 Mark coin from 1907In 1900, the sixteen-year-old Duke of Albany inherited the ducal throne of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from his uncle Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The ducal throne passed to his nephew, Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany.
Rothesay's death probably lay with Albany and Douglas who would have looked upon the possibility of the young prince acceding to the throne with great apprehension.
In addition to exercising considerable power and wealth, the Albany Stewarts were potential heirs to the throne ; Murdoch's grandfather was King Robert II of Scotland, who had founded the Stewart dynasty.
This may well have left James with the suspicion that the Albany Stewarts had personal designs on the throne of Scotland.
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, the second in line to the throne, was amicably separated from his wife, Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia.

Albany and like
In 1832 James Renwick Willson, a Reformed Presbyterian minister in Albany, New York, criticized Monroe for having " lived and died like a second-rate Athenian philosopher.
While the AFL was played in cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Chicago, the AF2 fielded teams in cities which are part of metropolitan statistical areas ranging in size from Milwaukee ( with 1, 739, 497 residents ) to Albany, Georgia ( with 164, 000 residents ).
Some named places, like Albany Park and Barnehurst, are names given to developments engendered by the building of the railways.
New Albany, like the other river towns, had no flood walls and no methods of regulating the river.
New Ashford is north of Pittsfield, northwest of Springfield, and west-northwest of Boston ( although, like much of the Berkshires, it is closer to both Hartford and Albany than its own state capital ).
The Albany Pitcher Plant is an advanced rosid, and thus closer related to apples and oaks than to other pitcher plants like Nepenthaceae ( basal core eudicots ) and Sarraceniaceae ( basal asterids ).
Yeungnam University currently has academic agreement with various Universities around the world like, University of Montana, Old Dominion University, University of Michigan, State University of New York at Albany, Iowa State University of United States, University of Alberta of Canada, Université de Haute-Alsace ( since 1999 ), Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk State Technical University of Russia, Fukui University and Shinshu University of Japan and other several Universities of Uzbekistan and China like Nanjing University, Nankai University and Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
:" This Robert, Duke of Albany, having obtained the entire government from his brother, King Robert, he caused the Duke of Rothesay to be murdered, thinking to bring the Crown into his own family ; but to avoid the like fate, King Robert resolved to send his younger son James, to France, then about nine years old, who being sea-sick, and forced to land on the English coast ... was detained a captive in England eighteen years.
The town of Throckmorton itself was completely evacuated and, like Albany, had its fresh water supply contaminated.
Albert James Williams Myers, professor of Black Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz remarks, " I think that political officials in Albany and elsewhere within New York felt that since Pinkster was a gathering for Africans that perhaps it could lead to a revolt and so I think it was really fear of the possibility that something like this could happen that we have to bring it to an end.
In the words of the English Heritage Survey of London, " the present resolute omission of the article seems to spring not so much from awareness of correct usage as from a sense, about the beginning of the 20th century, that ' the Albany ' sounded ' like a publichouse '".
There is also a correlation between location of Stylidium species and proximity of known carnivorous species, like sundews ( Drosera ), bladderworts ( Utricularia ), the Albany pitcher plant ( Cephalotus follicularis ), and the rainbow plant ( Byblis ).

Albany and Gloucester
Gloucester led an invasion of Scotland that resulted in the capture of Edinburgh and the king of Scotland himself, but Albany reneged on his agreement with Edward.
The marriage negotiations and dowry payments led to the invasion of Scotland and capture of Berwick in 1482 by his uncle Alexander, Duke of Albany and Richard, Duke of Gloucester while James remained at Stirling.
In the United Kingdom, ducal titles which have been given within the royal family include Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence, Duke of York, Duke of Gloucester, Duke of Bedford, Duke of Cumberland, Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Rothesay, Duke of Albany, Duke of Ross, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Kent, Duke of Sussex, and Duke of Connaught and Strathearn.
In 1482, Albany marched into Scotland with Richard, Duke of Gloucester ( later King Richard III ) and an English army.
In 1482 Edward IV launched a full-scale invasion led by the Duke of Gloucester, the future Richard III, including the Duke of Albany, styled " Alexander IV ", as part of the invasion party.
Thereafter, members of the Royal Family would stay periodically at Rideau Hall, if not as governor general then as guests of the Crown, so that the palace played host to Prince Leopold ( later also Duke of Albany ) in 1880 ; Prince George ( later King George V ) in 1882, 1901, and 1908 ; Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Connaught ( later also the Duke and Duchess of Strathearn ), in 1890 and as the viceregal couple from 1906 to 1912 ; Princess Louise in 1900 ; Princess Patricia with her parents from 1906 to 1912 ; Prince Albert ( later King George VI ) in 1910 and 1913 ; Edward, Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VIII ), in 1919, 1923, 1924, and 1927 ; Prince George ( later also Duke of Kent ) in 1926 and 1927 ; and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, in 1929.
New York interpreted the decision as invalidating Wentworth's grants entirely — to the great dismay of area residents — and subsequently divided the territory into four counties, Albany, Charlotte, Cumberland and Gloucester.

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